THE Jim Clark Rally will take place on forest ground again in 2016 following last year's tragic events.
The Scottish Borders race - which saw three people killed when a car came off the road on May 31 last year - will miss out on forming part of the British Rally Championship (BRC) as a result.
Rally organisers could not be sure they would secure the necessary closure orders to the return to the roads so have been forced to withdraw from the tournament.
A statement on the Jim Clark Rally website states: "Hopes that this annual event could revert to a closed public road format have been delayed due to continuing investigations, with a ruling from the Lord Advocate’s office not expected until sometime in 2016.
"That time frame leaves the organisers with no choice but to delay plans for a resumption of their closed public road event until 2017."
BRC manager Iain Campbell also confirmed the event's withdrawal from the championship, adding: "We hope they'll be back on the roads in 2017."
Iain Provan, 64, Elizabeth Allan, 63 and Len Stern, 71, were killed at the rally in 2014.
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